1st Edition
Sociology of Rationality Critiques and Creative Conversations
Author biographies viii
Foreword by Stephen Turner xiv
Preface xviii
1 Sociology of rationality: an introduction 1
Soumyajit Patra and Tattwamasi Paltasingh
SECTION I
Reflecting rationality: overviews and perspectives 11
2 Enlightenment and rationality 13
Paramjit S. Judge
3 Reason in the modern age 24
Owen Anderson
4 Max Weber: rational action, rationalism, and rationalisation: the anatomy of extinction 37
Sam Whimster
5 Weber’s theory of rationality: a critical reading 51
Ajit Kumar Pandey
6 Postcolonial rationality 67
Bill Ashcroft
SECTION II
Rationality of the marginalised 81
7 Feminisms and the questions concerning rationality 83
Ritu Sen Chaudhuri
8 Dependency and protest: choice and rationality of the marginalised 97
Debal K. SinghaRoy
9 Modern secular rationality and ‘Christianisation-in-depth’: between Marx and Foucault 110
Anup Dhar
SECTION III
Rationality: contextual ramifications 129
10 Rationality and economic behaviour 131
Filippo Barbera
11 Rationality, consumerism and lifestyle choices: narratives of urban youth 145
Nita Mathur
12 ‘McDonaldisation’ of education: context and critiques 158
Tattwamasi Paltasingh
SECTION IV
Rationality: critiques and creative conversations 171
13 Sociology in irrationalities: contexts of the commons 173
Soumyajit Patra
14 Towards deconstructive rationality: pathologies of reason and immanentist counter-discourses 187
Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Subhendra Bhowmick
15 The trajectory of politics-rationality interface: a conceptual framework 210
Raj Kumar Kothari and Kalyanasis Bhattacharyya
16 Rationality and beyond: towards planetary conversations 220
Ananta Kumar Giri
Index 240
Biography
Soumyajit Patra is Professor of Sociology, SKB University, Purulia, West Bengal, India. He is the former Coordinator of the Center for South Asian Studies, SKB University.
Tattwamasi Paltasingh is Professor of Sociology and Head of the P.G. Department of Sociology at Sambalpur University, Odisha, India.
